obama was going to demand the tax increases with or without the approval of ceos, many of whom didn't vote for him anyway. business leaders have something really wrong. under a false impression, the impression that president understood their support for tax increases and they would pressure their own republican buddies in congress and accept tax hikes, the ceo figures that they would offer spending cuts and go with the president and the grand bargain would be struck. now the ceos realize that perhaps the president doesn't think he should offer any spending cuts at all, maybe nothing substantive. they are saying, hey, listen, no compromise coming, even if they conceded they had to pay higher taxes, the gop isn't helping either. they don't want to get specific about own spending cuts and see a realistic proposal from the white house and pin the tail on the white house from being too tough on medicare. somebody needs to be the bigger man here, and it's increasingly clear that the business community thinks that somebody may not be the president. that's the information filtering back to me